>>45428564When Tox first started, I felt bad because I couldn't contribute but I really wanted to. But since then, I've learned Java. I just realized I can help now. I don't know how to develop for android though, any resources available? I know the language and coding theory well enough, but how do I interact with the Toxcore API and Android and all that? If someone could help point me in the right direction, I'd like to help with Andoid development. Should I fork Antox, start my own, send pull requests, or what? I don't really know the situation here

>>45428849I could probably learn. Not sure if I can take all the time in the world off to work on it but I'll be especially free over the summer and probably for a while afterwards. I could study and make small contributions in the meantime

>>45429034It depends. On one hand, Tox has made a lot of overall progress on the core and {u,q}Tox. On the other hand, last GSoC, some students barely did anything and some that did never got that code actually utilized.

Tox is secure in that it uses asymmetric keys with forward-secrecy. Its P2P, decentralized nature makes direct connections mandatory — since, y'know, that's how P2P works — but you are free to use it thru Tor if you like.

>>45429199Thanks, haven't been keeping up with anything but the core and qTox tbh.

>>45427755I want to get around to Antox 2.0 at some point but I have no idea when. University is giving me a lot of work and I have a part time job cause I gotta get money for dem hoes somehow.

Antox 2.0 will keep the same UI (I'm literally just going to straight copy the UI code and look at cleaning it up), but I'm going to completely redo the internals. Anyone competent would realise just how shit the antox code is. There's a reason there's so many bugs in antox.

>>45428724I've always been at ends with stqism and I don't like him. Our personalities clash and he's just too much of a normalfag for me. I feel like the position he claims for himself does not match the amount of work he actually does for Tox. I can't speak much however, as I do fuck all either. I've stopped caring what stqism does anyway, not my problem.

>>45428787Google's own android tutorials and docs are great and is where I learnt the majority of my android knowledge from. Just go through them step by step. Antox is currently in scala but if you know Java you'll know scala just by reading it. I wouldn't recommend it as a good base to work from though as mentioned above. You should also be using Tox4j. It's the new Java wrapper which is a lot better than jToxcore. It's still a work in progress but there's enough there for you to get started with. You can always catch me on IRC in the Tox channels if you have any questions with android development (nick is astonex or softkitty)

>>45430079Instead of making an own app, you could add support for the tox protocol to other popular open source instant messengers like Conversations (https://github.com/siacs/Conversations), Jitsi (https://github.com/jitsi), ...

This could boost popularity quickly and make it more acceptable.

It's up to the maintainers if they want to support it or not. Better ask them first.

>>45423691I'll switch when I can sync all communications on multiple devices. Until then, not worth it. Also waiting for a client to implement screen sharing. And none of my friends use it. It's still better than Skype, though.

>>45424290This is such a stupid argument said by those who have no knowledge in the field of networking or computing. For you to send a message to someone you have to know their IP address, there is nothing shady about that.If you don't want your IP to be broadcasted disconnect your router from the internet.

>>45438456you can't be serious. It's an horror. every message I get I feel like I should kill someone. and when someone just send me :)I imagine it with a knife trying to kill me. I'll never go back to skype.

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